Avid Record Collector

THE AVID RECORD COLLECTOR is a catch-all cat­e­gory for ar­ti­cles about record col­lecting that doesn’t col­lect those few ar­ti­cles I write about other people who write about rock & roll music and record col­lecting, many of whom don’t seem to know much about any­thing but their opin­ions.

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what is a “record album” and where did the term come from?

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THE WORLD TURNS, WORDS EVOLVE. Some­times the evo­lu­tion of a word is gradual and log­ical and few no­tice the change. Some­times it hap­pens quickly—often through ig­no­rance and misuse—and the change is jar­ring. In the 21st cen­tury, a word can go through a tremen­dous up­heaval if one in­flu­en­tial person mis­uses it one time on the in­ternet.

That one in­cor­rect usage can be picked up and re­it­er­ated lit­er­ally mil­lions of time in a matter of days. READ MORE